<p>I have a 71% in AP Mod Euro...I failed my map quiz (maps are not my thing), but everything else so far I have done well. I turned in all my work on time and completed. As much as I loved U.S History, that I took last year and acing all of those tests, I feel like I'm horrible at history now. Oh and extra question, my English teacher gave me a C- on me essay because I "used the thesauraus", wow, I understand what those words meant i.e invovation, however, dire, and such. Why does that matter? It doesn't mean you have the right to give me a 2 for Word Choice and Voice...</p>
<p>How does your teacher know you used a thesaurus?</p>
<p>Innovation you mean… correct? And those words for an AP Euro History are not that big. Unless your HS just sucks.</p>
<p>^haha honestly. Those are freshman-level words.</p>
<p>8th grade lol.</p>
<p>I think he means invocation. Its just a slight typo. I mean the C key is right next to the V key.</p>
<p>Ah… well that’s still about a 9th grade maybe 10th grade word. I’m sorry grading for word choice now has become petty. Essays should be primarily graded on content. That’s just my belief.</p>
<p>My english teacher is hell-bent on us using ‘big words’ in our essays… in an ap eng lang class, no matter how much it detracts from the content. Big words /= good writing (i’m looking at you, Christopher Paolini)</p>
<p>I agree. However, degrading for the use of the word dire in HS shows incompetency to me.</p>
<p>Yes I am a freshman, in AP. But my “Honors” English I teacher is so picky and stuff…looking at my essay again invocation was what I was supposed to type (typo). Other words I used were peerless, howbeit/nevertheless, extravagant, and the such. Well, since she wants to give me a D for word choice, I will now write like a 3rd grader and her class.</p>
<p>Contexts please.</p>
<p>A lot of people use “big” words incorrectly, even if the dictionary definition seems to fit. If your writing does sound like you “used the thesaurus” then a bad score in the Voice section makes sense. I’ve read some essays like that, and they can be a real struggle to get through.</p>
<p>Context(s):
“Moving middle schools was an unpredictable ordeal. I did learn diverse things from my differing schools”</p>
<p>“I lost optimism during the gloomy times, howbeit I held throughout the ordeal and good things came in return”</p>
<p>“…I didnt discern…”</p>
<p>“Now, this new teacher was awfully strict, if I evoke correctly, no one got an A, end of story”</p>
<p>Our teacher puts big purple marker over all of our “good words” and if we get 10 or more of them in an essay, we get extra credit.</p>
<p>“Well, since she wants to give me a D for word choice, I will now write like a 3rd grader and her class.”</p>
<p>Or you could act like you’re in 9th grade and try to, I don’t know, learn.</p>
<p>Perhaps you used the word in the wrong context…</p>
<p>I’ll just oversimplify my thoughts and statements in a essay or short write. Oh and I had a typo in the above …and should be is. Your lucky mathcountser, my teacher if you have more than 10 “big words” you get a D or F for it.</p>
<p>Not trying to pick on you, but are you sure some of these points weren’t lost due to bad grammar? It just seems like it, along with your word choice, could use work.</p>
<p>Hmm, I don’t know actually, my teacher last year said it was good. I just read them, it made sense and the stuff I type like post 16 had an error at Your, should be You’re, mathcountser; wait…what?! This isn’t English.</p>
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<p>What do you mean by diverse? Using “things” is also at best sloppy and at worst completely ambiguous. The two sentences don’t really seem to match (how was it unpredictable?) but I suppose there could be pertinent info that you didn’t copy.</p>
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<p>Ditto wrt “things”. I’ve never seen the word howbeit used before; the dictionary I checked labels it as archaic. You probably shouldn’t use it. Also, make sure you didn’t use the word ordeal too frequently.</p>
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<p>Full context? “I couldn’t discern” would usually be a more natural choice.</p>
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<p>– Now this teacher was awfully strict. No one in the class got an A. –</p>
<p>“End of story” doesn’t work here, and it’s too rambling for one sentence. Evoke is completely the wrong word here; it doesn’t mean the same thing as remember. I would suggest dropping the “if I …” qualifier altogether as it’s much stronger to present it as incontrovertible truth. In fact, if the essay is about your memory and impressions, then the fact that you remember it that way does in some sense make it true (and seriously, wgaf if it’s not?).</p>
<p>As an aside, what does this have to do with European History?</p>
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<p>That’s awful. This is why the SAT essay is such a cluster****.</p>
<p>“As an aside, what does this have to do with European History?”
Read the question again, it was an extra question.</p>
<p>Sorry, but I have never learned about those techniques you showed. I read a fellow peers’ essay and it was like mine, with the exception of the word choice and a few sentences. It is a essay over misjudgment if I included the whole essay it would take two posts probably.</p>